[Info-vax] OpenVMS 7.1 mail - attach file

[Bob Koehler]

In article <qg5c4d$c37$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> In article <o7cs2PdB3eh1 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 
> 
>>    VMS mail doesn't know what an atachment is.  Using it, and similar
>>    systems, we would UUENCODE the file, mail it, and UUDECODE it on the
>>    other end.
>> 
>>    You should be able to find UUENCODE and UUDECODE on the 'net for VMS
>>    and most other platforms.
> 
> In my experience, more often than not the other (non-VMS) end just 
> recognizes it as an attachment and treats it just like a MIME 
> attachment.
> 

   In my experience, it depended on how well the rest of the email
   looked like what the remote system's email expected.  Often, it
   did as you say.

   We never had a problem separating and UUDECODING an attachment from
   a remote system, but sometimes UUDECODE woul be OK with just
   extracting the whole email without separation.